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U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt gives a strong defensive political speech during 1940 presidential campaign

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1940 presidential campaign, speaking in Philadelphia, United States. The President stands at the podium addressing the crowd. The President vigorously defends his administration against what he characterizes as false charges by political opponents.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 5 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046216
Passengers at a Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City.

Pennsylvania railroad station (Penn Station) in New York City. Passengers at train station. A woman buys from a book shop. A woman checks time on her wrist watch. A woman uses a locker and goes away. A man kisses an elderly woman and goes away. Sign on counters reads 'Coach Tickets Pennsylvania R. R. Points Only'. Passengers walk down stairs.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053167
President Franklin Roosevelt inspects a navy yard and receives an honorary LLD degree in Philadelphia.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt receives an honorary LLD (Doctor of Law) degree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The President seated in a car. He inspects a navy yard. Troops stand at attention. He receives the LLD degree from the University of Pennsylvania at its bicentennial celebration. People gather in a hall to greet the President. He addresses the people. The crowd applauds.

Date: 1940, September 13
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046164
American pioneers conquer the west in the 1800s, compared to 1940s workers

The U.S. Capitol dome at night. Montage of U.S. Declaration of Independence with view of U.S. founding fathers at time of American Revolution. Reenacted depiction: 17th century immigrants or pilgrims arriving in the U.S. on large sailing ships. Group of men marching while carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag. Depiction of Betsy Ross with U.S.A. flag. A covered wagon at sunset. 18th century men cutting down trees. 18th century men building a log cabin. Settlers arrive to the remains of their burned out cabin. A stage coach on the U.S. prairie. A covered wagon in the midwest. A stage coach traveling through grass lands. 18th century depiction of a western town in the United States. A white man and a Native American Indian man driving the last spike to complete a railroad as the steam locomotive starts. An 18th century steam locomotive passes by. Actual footage of external view of 1940s factory or production plant. Inside 1940s factory men are building engines. Wide shot of workers entering factory. New York City street scene. Los Angeles street scene. A rancher mends a barbed wire fence. Cowboys-ranchers on their horses. Fisherman pulling in nets on shore. Tobacco farming. Leather worker. Shirtless worker wielding a pick axe. Plant worker turning a large valve. A woman painter with a maritime village scene...perhaps Provincetown. A woman scientist in a laboratory. A 1940s family at the dinner table. Farm laborers harvesting melons. Man drives a tractor with woman riding behind him.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050570
Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He delivers a speech at the convention hall to seek people's support in his favour.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058279
Girls dressed in gowns and graduation robes being presented degrees at a graduation ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

5,800 students receive diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Girls dressed in white gowns with bouquets in their hands during the graduation ceremony. The girls being presented the degrees. A large number of students gathered in the stands in their graduation robes. A man addresses the gathering. A girl being presented a degree at the ceremony.

Date: 1940, June 24
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059022